Nowhere Now

The environment of Nowhere Now is groundless and uncertain. City lights and movement through common space show urban isolation as a beautiful dislocation. One figure stands alone in every field, forced into conversation with the space around them.

City life is a sustained contradiction of nature, a denial of the past and a rejection of the individual. The video looks at those contradictions through architecture and the systems of a city: roads, elevators, parks and shopping centres. These constructions become the characters in a nowhere almost completely empty of people.

I shot it on a Nikon D90 at 24 frames a second, then edited it in Final Cut Pro and After Effects. It was the first time I scored my own work, in Soundtrack Pro. I posted it in December 2009 as a rough cut.